Thanks for the memories!

A Disappointing Continuation

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film is a comedy, family filled fun with Robin Williams at his comical genius. There are a lot of negative reviews for this film but let me put a positive spin on it. The plot is pretty simple; two best friends who are in business together and continuously help one another out. One gets divorced and they head to Miami for fun like the old days. Enter Kelly Preston who plays a minimal but significant part. A fling occurs AND then we fast forward 7 years later when Vicky pops back up in Williams life with two children. Here is where the comedy ensues and Travolta and Williams are at their best. There are a lot of laughs within the film and with co-stars such as Seth Green, Bernie Mac, Matt Dillon, Justin Long, Amy Sedaris the film is enlightend with fun.

I haven't seen this movie in a while so quite frankly I'm actually amazed that I remembered anything about it. Old Dogs seemed like it could have some potential as a good comedy but it really just fell flat. The story is that a woman is sent to prison so Charlie Reed (John Travolta) and Dan Rayburn (Robin Williams) have look after her kids. And in it the kids create some wacky trouble. That seriously is the plot of the movie. All the jokes either fell down flat or were just completely stupid. And when you have a comedy like that it's just going to drag on. I like Travolta and Williams but this time it seems both just made a mediocre performance in an even more mediocre film.

Even though it has two huge stars in it I'd never heard of this flick until I happened to watch it earlier this year, randomly. I think it was on netflix or something.Basically Travolta and Williams are two business partners and Williams ends up having to look after children, which drags the two serious businessmen into a whole host of silly situations.It's a kids' film, but its one of those kids' films that has a lot of humour that adults can appreciate too. So, if you'd like to watch a film that both you and your kids will enjoy then get ahold of this. It's definitely not perfect but there are some great scenes - particularly the one where the two adults mix up their medication.

The only reason I watched this was because Travolta lives in my town so I wanted to see if he was any good at acting. It HAS to be a far cry less than his best work considering his popularity. Ella Bleu Travolta actually did very well portraying her character as Kelly Preston's daughter (their child in real life) but then again, she's a little one so there wasn't much acting involved. Robin Williams was excellent as usual and added light hearted excitement throughout the film. Toward the end of the film there's a zoo scene where a child's party is taking place. Travolta, Williams want to get inside to the event but they go to extremes to try to do so. You'll have to watch it to see if they make it in :) anyway, rather than going to such extremes, why not simply call Preston (the mother) to let them in since they obviously also went to extremes to even arrive?? Cell phones exist in this movie world or something? In my opinion it was poorly written, Preston STILL hasn't gained any acting skills since her sexpot scene in Twins & it felt as though all the ponzi scheme scientologists got together, begged Williams to help & put together a film in 3 days. Definitely not for the intellectual, but probably will buy you an hour or so of quiet if rented for the kids.